- adjectiveoperative (adjective)
- functioning or having effect:"the transmitter is operative" · "the mining ban would remain operative"
- (of a word) having the most relevance or significance in a phrase or sentence:"a young man, and the operative word is young, should go into the armed services at around seventeen"
- relating to surgery:"they had wounds needing operative treatment"
nounoperative (noun) · operatives (plural noun)- a worker, especially a skilled one in a manufacturing industry.
- NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISHa private detective or secret agent.
Originlate Middle English: from late Latin operativus, from Latin operat- ‘done by labor’, from the verb operari (see operate).Similar and Opposite Wordsadjective- functioning or having effect:
- (of a word) having the most relevance or significance in a phrase or sentence:
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